Safe.



Patented June 13,

BARTELS.

M. MOSLER & C

SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED mo. 13.

Qr/Barfe/a Inventors Attorney Nos es Mos ler Witness:

.Pts: 7, screws serving to secure the co MOSES MOSLER, OF CINCINNATI.AND CARL BARTELS, OF HAMILTON, OHIO. ASSZGNORS TO THE MOSLEB SAFECOMPANY. OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Application filed December i3 !915. Seri z? 311a. 66.5%.

To all whom it may con ern:

lie it known that we. Moses Mosuzu, a citizen of the United States.residing at ('incinnati. llarnilton county. Ohio. and (.uu. Hum-11s. acitizen of the l'nited States, rcrf 'ng at Hamilton. Butler county()hio, hav invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

()ur invention will be readily understood from the following descriptiontaken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of a compound safe exemplifying our invention. the. doorof the outer safe being illustrated in the open position. andwall-portions of hoth sates being illustrated in vertical section in theplane of line a of Fig. 2; Fig. '2 a horizontal section of the outersafe and a plan of the inner safe. portions of the walls and doors ofboth sates appearing in horizontal section in the plane of line I ofFig. 1: and Fig. 5 a horizontal section. in the plane of line I) of Fig.l. of the wall of one of the sates. at the joint of separation betweenits sections. the joint lacing shown as open.

in the drawingz l. indicates the outer component of a composite safewhich will he herein termed the outer sate: '1. its door; 3. the rearportion of the outer safe: l. the front portion of the. outer safe: (i.a joint of separation between the front and rear portions of the outersafe: 3, a coverdland covering the outer portion of the joint hetwecnthe two sections of the outer safe. this t'i'and heing preferablysecured permanently to one of the sections, as by means of ri hand tothe secondscction of the outer safe:

a cover-strip over the inner portion oi the joint between the twosections of the outer safe. this strip whether complete arqund theinside of the outer. safe or formed in sectional strips, beingpreferablysecured permanently to one section of the outer safe, as bymeans of rivets: 9. screws serving to se ure the cover strip 3 to theopposite section of the outer safe: 10. a safe, hereinafter termed theinner safe. disposed within the outer safe and having the outer surfaceof its walls disposed inwardly at a distance from the inner surfaces ofthe Walls of the outer safe: 11, spacing members. as Mocks or strips.disposed in the .spaces between the inner surfaces of the may form apart of the wall and door of the outer safe and a part of the wall anddoor of the inner safe and may fill the spaces between the two walls' ofthe two sates, except at the doors.

Both the inner and outer safes are illustrated as being; provided eachwith a door at its trout. which is all that is needed if the safe is tobe opened from one of its faces only, and the illustration shows thedoor of each safe as being of single type, that is to say, each door issupported on hing s at one side of the door-jamh and is formed of onemember. as distinguished from double doors. each covering but half ofits door-opening and supported by hinges at each side of thedoor-opening. ()ur invention is indilicrcnt as to these variations inconstruction.

The walls and doors of" either or both sates may follow usualconstructions of safes, that is to say. either of the safes may involvea plurality of plates with fireproof iilling between the plates. or thewalls of either sale may he formed in any other usual manner. flhe spacebetween the walls of the outer safe and the inner safe forms an airspace having within itself heat insulating qualities. so that fireprooffilling within this space is not essential.

Looking at the outer safe it is to be observed that it is, withinitself, a-self-c ntained safe. and ldokingat the inner safe it is to heobserved that, within itself, it is 8.-

self-contuined safe. Either of these two- E the inner safe, out in casethe door-opening of the outer safe is too small to permitthe insertionof the inner safe, the inner safe may obviously be inserted in the outersafe before the two Sections of the outer sate are secured to eachother. The formation of the outer safe in united Sections permits of theouter safe being gotten into an apartment through a doorway too narrowto per; niit the passage of'the outer safe in its coinplete form, andthe same construction may be applied to the inneigsafe if the narrownessof doorways intothe con'ipartlnents indieatesits necessity.

When the inner safe has been disposed within the outer safe then themargin-plate may he applied and secured byany adequate means, as bymeans of screws securing the margin-plate to the front of the innersafe, the margin-plate masking the space between the inner and outersafes. "hen the safes are employed in conjunction, to form a compositesafe, there is nothing in the frontal appearance of the safe, when open,to indicate that the-sate is not an integral safe instead of a compositesafe.

In the safe-making art the distinction between the expression safe andrault is a rather shadowy one and seeimo be de pendent largely upon sizeof structure.

We wish it to'he distinctly understood that while we have termed ourinvention 'an improvement in safes theterm is to he provement in safesor vaults.

We claim A composite safe comprising. a self-row tained outer safeprovided with a door-jamh in one of its walls. a door hinged tosuchouter safe and closing into said doon anib;

an inner safe complete within itself and re movably disposed within theouter safe and unsecured thereto and having exterior dimansions lessthan the interior dimensions of the outer sate so asto leaYe. a spacehetween the walls oi" the two safes. spacing nieinhers disposed in suchspare and serving to position the inner sate within the outer safe. anda niargin-plate secured to the front of the inner safe and having itsouter edges at the walls of the outer safe and serving to close thefront of the space between the inner and outer safes and hide that spacewhen the door of the outer safe is open, combined suhstantiaily as setforth.

MOSES MOSLER. CARL BARTELS.

\Vitnesses G. M. (lroLnsnnn, l). A. G-LAESER.

